DP Draft Reports: Matthew Savoie, Tristan Luneau, Ty Nelson, Liam Öhgren, Marco Kasper
This week's edition of DP Draft Reports is headlined by Winnipeg Ice star Matthew Savoie who leads the WHL in scoring through the early part of the season with 39 points in 23 games. He [...]
Prospect Ramblings: The Best Skater, Shooter and Two-Way Forward in the 2022 NHL Draft
Welcome to my ramblings, where I’ll be writing down my thoughts on NHL and draft-eligible prospects once a week. I’ll be using the ramblings to keep you posted on the week's events, and let you [...]
Prospect Ramblings – The New Jersey Devils and Ottawa 67’s Connection
https://postmediaottawasun.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/18-02-10-67s-v-Oshawa-00-Andr-Tourigny-00-Puck-Delivery-jp.jpg?quality=60&strip=all&w=551&zoom=2 Over the years, the Ottawa 67’s have developed a plethora of NHL talent. Since the team’s inception in 1967, the 67’s have had 175 players drafted in either the NHL Entry Draft, the NHL Amateur Draft and the WHA Amateur Draft. Among the 175 players [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Raw Observations of D-1 & D-2 QMJHL Players
For last Friday's Prospect Ramblings, I offered up some of my raw observations from live QMJHL competition throughout the 2019-20 campaign in which fourteen of the leagues' top draft-eligible prospects were discussed. After this week's announcement of the NHL Central Scouting's year-end rankings, most of those players look to [...]
DPR Episode 82: Craig Button and 2020 NHL Draft Rankings
You know what the internet needs? One more NHL Draft rankings, so here we go. Peter gives his top 31 prospects for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft with a short comment on each player. The TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins for a long chat on the draft, [...]
Interview: 2020 NHL Draft Prospect Joni Jurmo
Joni Jurmo is a 17-year-old Finnish defenseman who is eligible for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. He has a very intriguing package of size (6-4, 190), skating ability, and skill. That type of package is always valued in the NHL which is why he is projected to be drafted in [...]
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DPR Episode 50: Beanpot Review, Waiver Wire and More
Episode 50 review of the Beanpot tournament, waiver wire player to add and more Intro segment talks about the coming NHL trade deadline and a great site to visit for NHL trade rumours is mynhltraderumors.com [...]
AHL Report: Midseason Awards
*** After rounding the corner of the unofficial mid-season mark of the professional hockey season, it’s time to once again have a look at some players in line for some AHL hardware. This month [...]
Tournament Review: U18 Five Nations in Russia
The final U18 tournament before the U18 World Championship tournament was played over the last week in Sochi, Russia. The tournament included teams from Russia, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic and USA. All five teams [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Keeping an eye on the AHL
image courtesy of NHL.com *** As one of the most important pro development leagues, its always a good idea to check on the AHL, and who has been impressing lately. Last month, our own [...]
WHL Report – February 2019
There were few crazy stories in the WHL for the month of January. I'll be blunt. It's tough to get excited over many things when it kind of was business as usual for the league and [...]
USHL Report
USHL Report – February, 2019 It is great to be back covering even more prospects from the USHL. Draft evaluations begin to take over this time of year. However, there [...]